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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200610-08">
+ <title>Cscope: Multiple buffer overflows</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Cscope is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that could lead to the
+ execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">cscope</product>
+ <announced>2006-10-20</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2006-10-20</revised>
+ <bug>144869</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-util/cscope" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">15.5.20060927</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">15.5.20060927</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Unchecked use of strcpy() and *scanf() leads to several buffer
+ overflows.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A user could be enticed to open a carefully crafted file which would
+ allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of
+ the user running Cscope.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Cscope users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-util/cscope-15.5.20060927"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4262">CVE-2006-4262</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-10-18T20:32:19Z">
+ falco
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-10-18T20:33:33Z">
+ falco
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>